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The irony is that this administration is actually implementing centrally managed economy (government purchasing shares of private companies, telling directly what they can and cannot do) like in communism, with the difference that communism at least pretended to be to help people.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
where irony?
It’s in Musk’s use of that word when he clearly doesn’t know what it means.
They’ve been complaining about voter ID and being dunked on for making the argument that you need ID to buy groceries and now the Mamdani grocery stores require a membership ID
Its so adorable that you think that you’re being clever.
So like a cooperative with open and voluntary membership?
Yes, plus voting is a right and buying groceries from a specific store is not
They set up a loyalty program like you would have for any grocery store, which helps with inventory control, and these people think it’s an ID verification system.
Hope they also use that to limit the quantity of food you can buy each month. Like max 5 liters of oil or so, to avoid people that bought to resell.
I don’t think that it’s going to matter if they do. The very fact that they are offering groceries at a lower price will put pressure on grocery businesses to shave their margins, which are already quite large due to “inflation”. (These places posted insane profits in the years since tte pandemic started, and even more after it was declared over).
If their kids get plump they can be used as human shields
Musk, probably
Not probably. Do you remember Musk around his family?
Sure you do. There’s a bunch where he’s with his little boy. . When? Oh, right after Luigi happened.
I don’t see the problem. I’d rather people be able to afford to eat and feed their families.
Anyone who has a problem with affordable groceries, in a period of time where the cost of living outweighs being able to afford groceries; can go fuck themselves with a rusty Trident.
Who the fuck downvoted THIS???
Patrick
Are we legally allowed to pray to St. Luigi in regards to Musk? I hope similar actions can happen.
Religion has often been banned throughout history when it challenges an authoritys place of power.
The fact that Mamdani is discounting chicken, milk and eggs shows he doesn’t care about animal’s welfare.
He was elected by humans who wish to pay meat tribute!
Yeah, fuck that guy for doing what he can to help humans!
Yes, this regard, right here! What a dummy
can we not use algospeak slurs please
What the fuk is algospeak? Grow up Peter Pan
Wow, that’s pretty interesting had no idea there was a term for that. No more algospeak for me, ever!!! Fuck them maga retards for ev er!!!
“r*tard” is a slur and i would appreciate if you did not use it. thank you.
Would you prefer “retard”?
I would prefer that you did not use a slur at all, and I feel like in an explicitly leftist space that shouldn’t be a huge ask
people here hate him for a reason
These assholes still think they can spread their bs without being detected. Fuk these bots!!
Its spelled fuck. You don’t need to censor here
SMCF is definitely not a bot. Prolific shit poster, yes. But definitely not a bot.
Good to know and I’m looking at post history right now. You’re right. Fuk these pathetic lil trolls straight living out of mamas basement. Either way it’s never been easier to spot these pathetic lil worms
Chill out, man. SMCF is a mainstay of the fediverse and I have never seen you here. Not all of their comments may land, but they’ve made me laugh on occasion.
Honestly, they are an acquired taste. It took some time but I have learned to enjoy SatansMaggotyCumFart.
Well, gee. I guess I’ll just go vote for Republicans, then, until we get a perfect Democrat.
It’s a discount on staples, but not everyone uses the same staples. Many people get their protein from non-animal sources. Is he also discounting beans, nuts, and tofu?
He’s not discounting staples only groceries.
You need /s here, since we can’t write in crayon.
Does that mean /serious?
I think it means /shitpost
I always thought it meant sarcastic. Same effect either way.
Former trillionaire. He’s ‘only’ about three quarters of the way there now.
Let’s take it all. We paid for it anyway.
He can keep Tesla, they’ll be bankrupt in 2-3 years anyway.
Yeah, poor will not starve, but at what cost? Stakeholders will not see much profit and the US won’t become white ethnostate.
I don’t understand. What’s ironic about a socialist opening some city owned grocery stores?
The irony is, he’s calling something irony and no one understands what he means.
Gommonysm 100Trillion starbed hardyharharhar
You need to dial down your intellect to the extend of a 12 yo, than you understand the mind of trillionaire.
The meme of communism being the root cause of the starvation in the USSR and China is infuriating to me because it stops people from seeing the valuable lesson that’s actually there: the destruction caused by ideology taking precedence over evidence and a system that cannot see or adapt to evidence that it’s made the wrong decision.
A well run communist nation would have run optional trial programs to test lysenkoism. It would have slowly ramped it up, seeing if it actually produced results, all while promising those trying it that if it failed they’d be given food, and if it succeeded they’d be allowed to keep some of the surplus.
No way to safely test the 5 pests campaign though. Gotta have people who understand agriculture and ecology make agricultural decisions to stop that.
Regardless though, these problems aren’t innate to communism. Reaganism/Thatcherism are of the same nature. And fascists did it far more egregiously than anyone else, partly because their ideology is built on explicitly rejecting non ideological thought and all old ways of doing things. If communists call watering crops communism, fascists will build tents to keep their plants dry.
The USSR and China were and are not Communist countries. Just because they call themselves Communist, doesn’t mean they have anything to do with Marxism.
Nothing in the slightest, Musk is just a dumbass with more money than any human should have.
He’s also got less sense than I thought a human was capable of, which is saying something, if he was smart he’d have fucked off after PayPal like Tom did when he sold MySpace
MySpace
My Space may be back.
So ive heard… im keeping my distance for the time being, seems like a trap
I would be doing secret AI experiments with a small AI center if I was in his place.
Sounds dumb, until you realize I would be architecting the actual algorithm myself, and not for corporate goals.
Wait, Tom is gone? He was a friend of mine!
Tom was and remains all of our friends, he left so it would be that way
In his empty head, there might be some connection to the Conservative Propaganda about people starving under Socialism, vs a Socialist opening grocery stores, and we’re supposed to see that as “Irony,” rather than popping a hole in their “Socialists Starve People” trope.
He’s just not smart enough, or sober enough, to follow the mental path beyond “Har, har, look at this Socialist with food, har, har. Ironic, huh?”
The irony is that Musk, self-proclaimed super genius, doesn’t know what irony is while calling things ironic.
He’s like a spoon who thinks it’s a knife.
Alright, alright. I see you’ve played knifey spoony before.
I actually haven’t, ironically. Is that a sex thing?
Only if you’re in Australia
An innocent Simpsons reference I’m afraid.
Isn’t it like rain on your wedding day?
I thought it was more like a traffic jam, when you’re already late
he would like the days when children return to the precious stone mines in South africa.
That would be emerald-y
probably force them to go africa, south america again and mine rare earth minerals
I had to sink to the lowest level but I think the perceived irony is that a socialist is opening a store which some people think is inherently capitalist
Thank you, my brain was failing to understand even in theory what point he thought he was making…
Even if it is dumb, I at least like to know the reason…
By Zeus, that makes sense now.
it apparently requires an ID for… something…
Ah, I see. And he’s saying it’s ironic for them to require an ID when they are against people having to show their ID at the polls. Right?
Imagine when he learns about library cards.
Or driver’s licenses
I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t even have one.
If I was a gazillionaire I would probably not drive.
Of course, I would also be a class traitor to the rest of the capital class and soon stop being a gazillionaire…
It’s been clarified that you won’t need an id to buy. It would be more akin to a loyalty card. Seems they want to use it to track usage patterns and cut off scalpers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-team-153800291.html
Thank you for that clarification.
Where irony
Its too much!
It’s Alanis Morissette’s version of irony
Dontcha think?
Its a store and stores are only in capitalism.
Man it’s only a matter of time
Soon everyone will see
What exactly do you mean by this? What is only a matter of time?
Until everyone has had enough of Musk’s bullshit and they decide to deal with him, hopefully so he can rot in prison for a long time
sigh I wish I shared your optimism.
yeah I know, but all it takes is one crazy person
to replace him with someone else exactly like him while the entire world sends thoughts and prayers? like happened with the UHC CEO?
You bots are not making any sense
That person is clearly not a bot, you can look at their post history, theyre just communicating poorly
beep boop
Elon Musk literally bragged that if anyone could prove $6B could end world hunger, he’d spend it. UN was, like, yeah. He, of course, dropped the conversation right then and there.
Yeah but can you imagine the humiliation if it didn’t work and he accidentally just saved millions of lives without getting rid of 100.0% of the problem?
Well I’m upset that Musk is still breathing.
The way Musk talks he makes me think he has more hands than amount of books hes read
Thats such a large range, I would have gone with noses.
Idk he might have given mein kamphf a go
didn’t he have a copy of Hitler’s speeches bedside or was that Trump?
Donald.
